Rate the season

[RamboandBruno]

Best in my living memory. The Europa league is in my view more prestigious that even the 90s version of the league cup. To finish as high in the league is harder now than in 96. I loved the 96 team, i love this team more. This also feels its been building for a few years, making the relief/happiness all the greater. Im also 52 now, so times ticking etc, making this now, so meaningful.
As has been said, I hope its the start of our time.

[olaftab]

This season was great but not quite 1981. Closest to this is 95/96 when Brian Little won the league Cup, reached the semi-final of the FA cup and finished 4th.

[Nii Lamptey]

*9/10

...to give me room for a 10/10 next season when we do the league/Champions League double. 😉

[Chris Harte]

Marvellous.

Just bloody marvellous.

[paul_e]

As seen on MOTD.

Of the final top 5, we finished joint top of the mini league versus each other.

Of the same 5 we finished bottom in comparative results against the leagues bottom 5 teams.

Unai likes a challenge, and he likes teams who press us high and man-to-man. I kind of prefer it this way, more fun really to beat Arsenal than Burnley in the end.

Overall - after that start we finished a clear fourth when fifth would have done, beat Man City home and away, had a thousand huge memories (Buendia against Arsenal? Tammy vs. Sunderland?) - oh yeah, and ended the three-decade drought with a proper European trophy we'd never won before. That's worth a weirdly bad day or two against Wolves, or Palace, or even Spurs.

For me this is the clearest sign of all that our biggest weakness is squad depth. People like Rogers and Konsa have to play so many games that they sometimes aren't quite up to it against the poor teams but we  also can't afford to rest them most of the time. 3-4 signings who are around the standard of the first them and we'll be able to take a very different approach to those games.

[VancouverLion]

For me, the best ever.

11/10

Your heart is our heart!!

[Somniloquism]

Like Rambo,  I was too young to remember 80/82 era with my only real memory of it seeing a picture on the mantelpiece at my uncles which had my 3-4 month old cousin sitting in the trophy.

So this is the main one followed by 95/96 and 93/94 with Emery's other seasons jostling with SGT and Big Ron's second place seasons in the following places.

[CT Villan]

I think it was way better than A+ Smirker, though I understand your reasoning. Had we not had the majority of our central midfield out for so long I may agree with you, but despite that we finished 4th, and won the EL. Those are remarkable achievements alone, but when you consider all of the restrictions from TPTB, what we achieved was beyond incredible.

[Smirker]

I think it was way better than A+ Smirker, though I understand your reasoning. Had we not had the majority of our central midfield out for so long I may agree with you, but despite that we finished 4th, and won the EL. Those are remarkable achievements alone, but when you consider all of the restrictions from TPTB, what we achieved was beyond incredible.

Agree with it all but I've gotta leave some room for a title win/CL/quadruple.

A+ I think is fair.